Monday, November 21, 2011

The text of The Bet

http://www.eastoftheweb.com/short-stories/UBooks/Bet.shtml

This is the actual version we are using in class as well as the one that is read on Librivox. (http://librivox.org/)
You can listen online, put it on your MP3 player or iPod to listen at your own leisure.

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38 comments:

  1. AnonymousNovember 25, 2011 at 12:39 PM

    jian

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  2. EkkaratNovember 25, 2011 at 2:03 PM

    This story the wager of course as illegal for young man only 15 years.

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  3. AnonymousNovember 25, 2011 at 5:37 PM

    The man was survived by his knowledge.----jian

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  4. david velezNovember 25, 2011 at 6:53 PM

    I think this story shows about the knowledge of a young man ...... and also about the death penalty in some cases is not very good ....

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  5. yichenNovember 25, 2011 at 9:29 PM

    The story shows that money is not permanent , but the knowledge is the most important treasure.

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  6. wanglingNovember 26, 2011 at 5:58 PM

    This story is tell us that the knowledge is important than the money, and the young man is very cool ,beacuse he can lived one place at 15 years.

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  7. ZZYNovember 26, 2011 at 6:25 PM

    All people know the money is not very important for us, but the people all can not be without it and hope to get more and more.

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  8. weichenNovember 26, 2011 at 6:56 PM

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  9. weichenNovember 26, 2011 at 6:59 PM

    This story shows the man lost his life but he got many knowledge. He thought money is not very important for our life.I think the bet is not necessarily bad.

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  10. song zhengNovember 26, 2011 at 8:23 PM

    I think that it is the banker who won the bet and the argument of whether life imprisonment is better than death. Because, he understood the true meaning of knowledge

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  11. NAZISH RIAZNovember 27, 2011 at 11:48 AM

    I think Knowledge is more more more important than the money:)

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  12. qin chenNovember 27, 2011 at 3:06 PM

    i think knowledge is the most important thing in our life,because knowledge can make you respected!!!

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  13. qin chenNovember 27, 2011 at 3:09 PM

    Today,we respect knowledge and talented people!!!

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  14. xiaoqian liNovember 27, 2011 at 3:50 PM

    This story shows the knowledge is more important than the money.

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  15. yu chuanNovember 27, 2011 at 4:51 PM

    I think knowledge is the most important than money, because if you have a good knowledge, and you invent somethings new. You can earn a lot of money for your life.

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  16. Wu,GuannanNovember 27, 2011 at 5:09 PM

    The story shows knowledge is more important the money .Also when banker saw the letter.He was understood what is the ture meaning about konwledge.

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  17. Wenting ZengNovember 27, 2011 at 6:19 PM

    The story shows we spend time learn knowledge is worth. Money cannot buy knowledge, but we have knowledge we can make money.

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  18. shuai zhouNovember 27, 2011 at 7:29 PM

    The story shows knowledge is more important the money .Also when banker saw the letter.He was understood what is the ture meaning about konwledge

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  19. jin xueNovember 27, 2011 at 8:20 PM

    This story is about a banker and a young lawyer who make a bet with each other and shows to us if you want something,you need to paid first.

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  20. wenhui xieNovember 27, 2011 at 8:59 PM

    The story shows knowledge and money's relationship. People face knowledge and money who how to choose.

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  21. yingyingNovember 27, 2011 at 9:08 PM

    the story shows us the knowledge is more important than the money,and we cannot use money to buy knowledge,but we can use the knowledge to make money.

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  22. AnonymousNovember 27, 2011 at 9:13 PM

    I think that knowlege is very important, but I also think that life is better than no life.

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  23. Jinyun.LiuNovember 27, 2011 at 9:14 PM

    I think that knowlege is very important, but I also think that life is better than no life.

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  24. Chen MinjingNovember 27, 2011 at 11:13 PM

    I think the value of life is greater than the money.

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  25. zien pengNovember 28, 2011 at 12:06 AM

    I think death can take anything away of your life except for knowlage ,so the knowlage have the highest price than anything you got when you are alive.

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  26. ParnzNovember 28, 2011 at 9:45 AM

    I dont agree with death penalty and whole life penalty cuz every ppl should hav a chance to prove their value of life.

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  27. boksunghoonNovember 28, 2011 at 9:49 AM

    I think we need knowledge to make a big money

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  28. jianyunlinNovember 28, 2011 at 9:54 AM

    I think the knowledge is more important in our life ,without the knowledge that we will can not have a wonderful life because the knowledge is powerful to help us do many things what we want to do.

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  29. Shiwei.LinNovember 28, 2011 at 5:04 PM

    I think the knowledge is important for our life, because it can follow us forever.

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  30. zifanNovember 28, 2011 at 7:49 PM

    I think knowledge‘s worth more than the money,the lawyer use fifteen year to learned most of knowledge,that he know money is no everything!

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  31. AnonymousNovember 28, 2011 at 11:23 PM

    I think knowledge is important than money

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  32. mengniNovember 28, 2011 at 11:43 PM

    the story shows that the knowledge is more important than money,however,how many people will understand it in real life?

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  33. AnonymousNovember 28, 2011 at 11:48 PM

    I think knowledge is important than money

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  34. jiayan liNovember 28, 2011 at 11:53 PM

    the story shows knowledge is important than money

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  35. kashuNovember 29, 2011 at 8:08 PM

    if u have knwldge u can make money..
    but money cant buy u knwldge...

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  36. weijun.yinDecember 4, 2011 at 9:06 PM

    The story shows us about the knowledge is better than money . Of couse in our live, we can not without the money,but we also can not without the knowledge too. We can't give up knowledge for money.

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  37. 10zinDecember 9, 2011 at 4:43 PM

    this story its about the guy who stays in lodge for like 15years and he cant communite eithr in lodge.later on when that guy is going to release in 8hours the banker was worried alot about their money.if they give money to him the bank wont gonna a left no more money....

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  38. UnknownDecember 11, 2011 at 10:22 PM

    @ weijun
    Yes....finally! the point is that we need both. We can't live without one or the other.

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